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Officials warn suburban Cook County might soon need tighter COVID-19 restrictionsAug 28, 2020 1:00 am - Suburban Cook joined 30 counties exhibiting warning signs of a COVID-19 surge Friday, and that could lead to restrictions such as smaller gathering sizes, officials warn...
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Vigilante calls on social media before deadly Kenosha attackAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - Repeated calls for armed vigilantes to travel to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protect businesses following the police shooting of Jacob Blake spread across social media in the...
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NW Indiana school reopens after company traps, releases batsAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - CHESTERTON, Ind. (AP) - It was bats, not coronavirus cases, that delayed a northwestern Indiana school's fall reopening for in-person classes after some of the flying ma...
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Exelon to close 2 Illinois nuclear power plants in 2021Aug 27, 2020 7:00 am - BYRON, Ill. (AP) - Two nuclear plants in northern Illinois will shut down next year, resulting in the loss of up to 1,400 jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue, th...
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Judge blocks rule that moves relief funds to private schoolsAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge in California has blocked a rule that Michigan, seven other states and four big-city school districts said would unlawfully allow t...
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Woman gets 6 years for driving off unfinished highway bridgeAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - URBANA, Ill. (AP) - A central Illinois woman who admitted being drunk when she drove off an unfinished bridge onto a highway, seriously injuring a man, has been sentence...
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Biden: Trump sees Wisconsin unrest as `political benefit'Aug 27, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Biden said Thursday that President Donald Trump is 'œrooting for more violence" amid racially charged unrest in Wisconsin, and that he'd be willing...
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Ill. teen charged in Kenosha shooting that killed 2, hurt 1Aug 27, 2020 7:00 am - KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 17-year-old from Illinois in the fatal shooting of two protesters and the wounding of a third in Kenosha, Wisconsi...
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1,707 new, confirmed COVID-19 cases in Illinois, 25 deathsAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The Illinois Department of Public Health on Thursday reported 1,707 confirmed new cases of COVID-19 and 24 deaths due to the virus. The health ...
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17-year-old arrested after 2 killed during unrest in KenoshaAug 27, 2020 7:00 am - KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) - A white, 17-year-old police admirer was arrested Wednesday after two people were shot to death during a third straight night of protests in Kenosha ...